3D fractals with lighting, materials, and camera control.
Fly through a crystal cave, dive into a zoom that never ends, and make surfaces glow and light the world around them, all inside After Effects. KFM 3D Fractal Pro follows the comp camera and lights and renders at up to 32 bits.
60–90 s, 1920×1080, with no narration or a short voiceover. Open on a looping Macro Zoom, move into Cave World with the lantern, then switch materials live in Effect Controls. Close with the Plugin’s bite.
In After Effects, a fractal usually means a texture—noise, clouds, or fire. Here it is a real 3D object with a surface, materials, shadows, and a camera. It is the kind of image that used to call for another app and an imported sequence, but now lives on the timeline like any other effect.
This browser preview uses just one formula; in After Effects, all four can be combined with materials, comp lights, and the final polish.
Visuals for stage screens and LED walls that respond to the camera and lights, in a loop or a continuous dive.
A logo emerging from a fractal structure, with Deep Glow and the comp’s DOF.
Alien worlds, crystal caves, and impossible architecture with Cave World.
Macro Zoom closes the cycle seamlessly, ready for stage screens, LED walls, or event backgrounds.
Glass, Rutilated Crystal, and Psychedelic Chrome as a packshot set.
Depth Pass and Normal Pass for DOF, relighting, and integration with the rest of the comp.
Each slot has its own formula, with dynamic names, ranges, and patterns. Slots 2–4 combine with the first using Smooth Merge, Hard Cut, or Intersect, with no seams.
With self-similar formulas like Menger and Polyhedral KIFS, Macro Zoom scales around the formula’s own fixed point and fills the space with its expanding shapes. Each cycle ends where it began: an infinite zoom with no precision limit. Animate Zoom Levels linearly and the speed stays constant.
For formulas that are not self-similar, Deep Zoom finds an exact target on the surface before each frame, then scales around it. The target stays fixed on screen as everything grows around it, without drifting off into nowhere.
An endless cave to fly through: rocky floor and ceiling, stalactites and stalagmites, pillars, and clusters of hexagonal crystals that shine like glass. Twelve controls shape the world, and Camera Lantern keeps a light attached to the camera.
Quaternion Julia gets continuous Power, rotation of its 3D slice through 4D space (XW, YW, ZW), and a closed orbit for constant C. Quaternion Mandelbrot and Hypercomplex Julia round out the family.
Emissive pieces and Cave World crystals light their neighbors: short rays look for nearby emission, and anything blocking those rays casts a shadow. Choose Off, Fast, Quality, or Ultra.
Palettes are built in OKLCH from style, harmony, hue, saturation, and lightness, then perceptually interpolated in the shader. Weathering darkens crevices, creates strata, and fades exposed faces; Growth Cover settles moss, ice, or sand on upward-facing surfaces.
Each formula separates its geometry into structural pieces: Mandelbulb lobes, Menger subcubes, Apollonian cells, and Cave World formations. Select pieces for an accent color or emission, then animate which ones are selected with Evolution.
Six material models per slot, with mix, roughness, metalness, transmission, IOR, clearcoat, subsurface, internal glow, thin-film, and inclusions. Six procedural environments feed reflections and refraction.
New instances use the active comp camera by default, with manual or native DOF. Up to eight AE lights are carried into the render in color: Parallel, Spot, Point, Ambient, and Environment. Shadows, true distance-field AO, and approximate GI complete the lighting.
Multiscale HDR glow over the image, the emission buffer, or both, with exposure, soft knee, six falloffs, distortion, and chromatic aberration on the halo only. An independent Lens Distortion completes the stack.
Along with the beauty pass, the plugin provides passes ready for your comp.
These are the parameter groups as they appear in After Effects. Every control is animatable.
Decide how many presets ship with the plugin (formula + material + palette + camera). For the page: total count and 8–12 16:9 thumbnails, each labeled with its preset name.
3–6 artist projects (video or 16:9 stills), each with a name, link, and a short testimonial.
A short artist quote, name, role, and studio, with a photo or avatar.
A second testimonial, ideally from a production company (the brand’s other audience).
5–8 min: apply it to a Solid, choose a formula, set up the AE camera, and render a first frame.
5 min: Menger, linearly animated Zoom Levels, and exporting the loop.
8–10 min: build the cave, add Camera Lantern and Emissive Light, then fly the camera through it.
PDF or documentation page covering every Effect Controls group.
Discord or forum link.
Support email or help desk, with response time.
Decide on the fields below. On the finished page, this becomes a purchase card with buttons to buy and download the trial.
No. The plugin requires a GPU: if the OpenGL context, shader, or readback fails, AE receives the error instead of a black frame.
No. The plugin runs on Windows x64 with OpenGL 3.2.
Yes, at 8, 16, and 32 bpc, in Full, Half, Third, and Quarter resolution, with tiles and ROI.